‘Walkout’ steps back to pivotal protest in LA

“Thirty-eight years later, Sal Castro is still angry. Not about the old policies that forbade East Los Angeles high school students from using the restrooms at lunchtime or from speaking Spanish in class, but about how little has changed since 1968. Here’s Castro, a former high school teacher and a central character in the new HBO movie Walkout, in a tense exchange with TV-beat reporters last January in LA:

“Did you know also that 9,000 Mexican-Americans fought in the Civil War?” he asks the reporters rhetorically. “You didn’t know it. Teachers don’t tell [their] kids because they don’t know it, either. [Teachers are] too damn lazy to become effective with our children. I speak to teachers all the time. They ask me, ‘Castro, where do you get all this stuff?’ I tell them, ‘A deep dark place called the library.’ . . . You’ve got to motivate the children.”"

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